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DragonBomber · #12 Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:44 pm

My mother was too much of a packrat to get rid of our gaming systems. We bought more stuff from people getting out and generally were one system behind everyone else. Meant cheap games, but you were very cool in school. Everyone had NES out in Cali when we had Atari 2600. I might have had over 200 games, but they had the new stuff. It was mostly me chasing deals from kids before their parents could unload the consoles at a yard sale or whatever, with more than once me wandering into someone's house with a couple bucks hoping to score. The best example was this kid I didn't even know taking me to his house, where their Spanish mother began yelling at them and I could not understand most of it except the cussing. I did end up with the atari game in question at the price he promised, but it turned out, years later when I began collecting the games, that it was merely a variant of another game. ie, I had bought the cheaper Sears Telegames version of an Atari game, so in the long run it was the same game as I would later buy due to the different name given one versus the others. Thus, I saved nothing in the end.

Making up your own stories to the crazy Atari games was easier than the NES games, I found. Mainly since the NES games that we didn't have manuals for often were too detailed and you couldn't make up a fake story and play away for hours in blissful ignorance as easily. Though, NES games often were more fun, though there were exceptions.